Allow me to send my warmest congratulations for your 60 years birthday at September 7!

You are a strong force for peace with dignity, social justice and uplifting of the downtrodden in both Sri Lanka and Norway. I admire your struggle for a peaceful Sri Lanka which gives full respect to all Tamil legitimate rights and aspirations.

Moving from Jaffna to Drammen can not have been easy. But it made it possible to contribute to both countries and to work tirelessly for the friendship between Sri Lanka and Norway. We are very grateful!

Thanks so much and congratulations with the 60!

Erik

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From: Shan Nalliah

Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 4:30 AM

Subject: Re: THANKS FOR MEETING YOU!

To: Erik Solheim

Dear Hon.Erik Solheim esq,

Thanks a lot for your kind Greetings!

I remember the day I saw you on TV-debate as Socialist Youth leader,later I joined with Socialist Left party offering my membership form to you at Spiralen meeting in Drammen, were great memories!

I hope & pray God that you will do your best at UNEP as DSG & become UNSG soon to be a great mobiliser towards harmony among humans; as well as with nature!

Sincerely Yours,

Shan Nalliah,

Gandhiyist,Drammen, Norway, Mobil: 0047-91784271

BOOK REVIEW BY E.K.KANTHASAMY,TEACHER/ ROYAL COLLEGE,COLOMBO,SRILANKA

BOOK: A NORWAY TAMIL'S INTERESTING EXPERIENCES by SHAN NALLIAH, NORWAY------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I have read your book and this is a rare book in the "Tamil World" as well as "International World". I congratulate you greatly! because you made such a wonderful book with a strong objective, motivation and great effort. This book reflects your affection towards tamil language,hindu culture, tamil people, human friendship as well as fond of our village/land.

Nations of the World, their people and their leaders are shown and focussed through this book.

This book shows/leads to feelings of unity among the World people. You have created this book as a wonderful example for each and every good humanbeing's objectives, cultures, life style etc with great effort, tireless work, sleepless nights and painful writings. You have visited many countries! You have met and talked directly with many world people and leaders to make them realise, to uplift the Eelam Tamils' lives/feelings! You made us to know about your whole life from your young age through this book! You adore greatly your parents through this book! As a mediaman you made this book very rich with contents necessary for a great book!

I compare this book with 2000 year old collection of poems called "Thirukural"as a great creation! You should have spent a lot of money for this great creation!

You focussed the everyday hard work of the Eelam Tamil diaspora in this World. Even in ice covered Norway, our Tamil people are surviving well, is a great fact to realise the truth. Many world countries realised the tamil people's hardworking and their good nature.

In your book, poems as well as articles were well written in a nice manner in Tamil. You are not only a media scholar but also a good poet! You as my village fellow became very popular among World Tamils(by publishing a magazine called SARVADESA TAMILER/Intl.Tamils) and published a great book made me feel very happy!

You remember,I met and talked to you when you visited earlier in Colombo in 1996.My articles/poems were published in your magazine:SARVADESA TAMILER. A Tamil from Kerala contacted me through your magazine.

While I was a teacher at Jaffna/Kondavil Saiva Tamil School, I knew your father & relatives.

I pray your good services should continue! In all aspects, your motivations, culture are the same as mine! Because of that I have a great respect for you!!

ABOUT POET:E.K. KANTHASAMY-----------------------------------------!

I sacrifice my life to the progress of Tamil language and people as it was in old times, due to my love and respect for them due to my studies of Tamil language and history at the young age.

Due to great respect of Periyar and SJV.Chelvanayagam, I involved in many activities!I respected other people,their language,culture,religion as I did towards my language,culture and religion.When I was working at the Royal college, Colombo as well as at the Ministry of Education with Sinhalese people, I realised their good characters!

I came to Colombo in 1963 because of transfer of my job and involved in Tamil Sangam's(TS) service due to request from our tamil scholars! Today, TS is grown very well and I am happy to be a part of its growth!I still stay here and do my duty to TS ! I spread the greatness of the poet Poothanthevanar because he was one of the poet who showed the greatness of Eelam Tamils.

Library of TS is one of the greatest! You should send all your publications here as you did before! Many people from our village:Inuvil are doing their good services to this great TS!

I focussed the Tamil people's history and speciality at the World Conference in Mauritius some years back and express their loss of land to tsunami time to time as well as richness and strongness of Jaffna kingdom.I published my book "Panchavanna Thoothu" and express our traditional religious and cultural ties with Tamilnaadu in India. Manimekalai publications of Tamilnaadu published my book as they did your book very well!My book was released in SL and Canada by Sooriyar.

My friend, a village fellow: Mr.R.Sivalingam(Uthayanan)who was working at the University of Helsinki published a Tamil translation of KALEVALA,a national epic of Finland!That was great!

Please all of you ,continue your services to your people and language!forever!!!

BOOK REVIEW BY V.SIVASUPRAMANIAM/ RTD TEACHER-J.H.C.,SRILANKA

BOOK REVIEW -BY V.Sivasupramaniam----------------WORTHY EXPERIENCES OF A NORWEGIAN TAMILShanmugappirabu Nalliah............................The five hundred page volume in Tamil is a publication to commemorate the Golden Jubliee of the birth of the author.It is a unique publication in the sense that the majority of the contributions are in verse than in prose form.The verse form is far away from the traditional pattern but falls under a new pattern in a lucid and easily understandable style that could be very well appreciated by the glolbal diasporic second and third generation of Tamils.In this respect the author has succeeded well in reaching his global audience.The entire work could be classified under three categories--tribiutes to elders,social leaders and his kith and kin; the author's exchanges , interviews and experience with diverse personalities in the various Afro-Asian and European countries of his travels; and finally creating awareness and canvassing support for the Tamil cause in his native land which is very close to the author's heart.

The author hails from the traditionally cultural village of Inuvil in Jaffna and had his secondary education in the prestigious Jaffna Hindu College. He is a Peradeniya produced Agricultural scientist turned global Journalist who has made Norway his permanent country of domicile due to circumstances beyond his control having undergone the trauma due to political conditions back home.His early training during his pre-university days with the home-grown Tamil daily and later with the national Tamil daily enabled him to organise and continue the global Tamil journal " Sarvadesa Tamilar " with great acceptance and appreciation in dessiminating information and canvassing support for the Tamil cause.

The author is full of gratitude for all those who helped and supported him from his childhood including his parents, relations, his kith and kin and also his dedicated teachers,religious and social leaders who went a long way to shape his career and life.Being a Gandhian from his youth, he had a burning desire for social justice throughout his career and successfully organised anti-alchoholic movements at grassroot levels.He has sufficiently brought out his appreciation of religious and cultural values, and nature's contribution to happier life style in our rural setting so as make those who are living far away from our native land to recall and appreciate such rich values.

Where ever he travelled, be it European countries or India and the Far East he has made meaningful contacts with people who matter with the main purpopse of making them aware of the problems faced by the Tamils back home.This has helped to create supportive international opinion on the burning issues of the time.He developed such a passion to redress the grievances of our people so muich so that as a student he had the courage to present a petition of requests on the stage of the World Tamil International Conference held in Madurai in 1981 to the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M.G.Ramachandran which had favourtable results.His writings go a long way to reveal the amount of ground work that he had organised in Norway and with other international bodies to lobby them to involve in the many and prolonged peace processes in Sri lanka.

All in all, the publication contains worthy experiences that should be read fully to experience the worth of its value.The author's efforts are to be appreciated as a lot of involvement and dedication has gone into this publication and it is well worth the efforts. It was printed by Manimekhalai Printers in T" Nagar , Chernnai and has come out as a well bound attractive publication and was released in Chennai in September 2007